Usually means: Deeply insightful, significant, and impactful.
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  1. profound: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. profound: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. profound: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. profound: Collins English Dictionary
  5. profound: Vocabulary.com
  6. Profound, profound: Wordnik
  7. profound: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. profound: Wiktionary
  9. profound: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. profound: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. profound: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Profound, profound: Dictionary.com
  13. profound: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. profound: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Profound: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Profound: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. profound: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. profound: Rhymezone
  19. profound: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. profound: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Profound: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. profound: Free Dictionary
  23. profound: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. profound: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. profound: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. profound: Legal dictionary

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  1. profound: Encyclopedia

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  1. Profound: Urban Dictionary

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  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to great depth; deep.
adjective:  Very deep; very serious
adjective:  Intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough
adjective:  Characterized by intensity; deeply felt; pervading
adjective:  Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive
noun:  (obsolete) The deep; the sea; the ocean.
noun:  (obsolete) An abyss.
verb:  (obsolete) To cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down.
verb:  (obsolete) To dive deeply; to penetrate.

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